Internet2 Community News Spotlight – March 2021 Edition

By Sara Aly

This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. 

• US Ignite and Project OVERCOME Select Seven Communities for National Science Foundation-Funded Broadband Awards
• For 20 years, WiSE has Helped Women Find a Place in Science and Engineering at USC
• Trusted CI and the CI CoE Pilot Complete Identity Management Engagement with GAGE
• Exploring Women’s History Month: A Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Engineer Discusses Her Perspective
• National Institutes of Health to Enhance Tribal Engagement Efforts for Precision Medicine Research
• Hidden Figures (Harvard Gazette)
• Big Data Accelerates Biodiversity Research (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Watch Merit’s President & CEO Joe Sawasky discusses how SpaceX/Starlink Low Earth Satellites are bringing broadband to underserved locations.
• FBI Warns of Increased Ransomware Attacks Targeting Colleges (Inside Higher Ed)
• PEARC21: Trusted CI Call For Proposals at the 5th Workshop on Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure
• Supercomputers Help Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research (UC San Diego)
• Report Highlights Challenges Facing Rural Communities (Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
• Connecticut Educational Network Partners with Members to Offer Free High-Speed Public Wi-Fi Access
• Life Inside CENIC: Sana Bellamine and Core Engineering
• Trusted CI Webinar: REED+ Purdue’s Evolution From a CUI Environment to an Ecosystem to a Community, Mon Mar 29 @11am Eastern
• Trying Times for Tribal Colleges (Inside Higher Ed)
• Mines Vice President Stefanie Tompkins Named DARPA Director
• A Space to Support Researchers (Science Node)
• CIO Dave Lewis to step down in June (University of Rochester)
• It’s Time to Address Disparities in Internet Access, Says USC’s Martha Escutia
• System Launches Missouri Online (Inside Higher Ed)
• Educause Report Tackles Cybersecurity and Privacy in Higher Ed (Campus Technology)
• Want to Close the Cyber Skills Gap? Get Women Involved! (CISOMAG)
• Kelly Cross Named One of the 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America (University of Nevada, Reno)
• William & Mary Opens New Esports Training and Research Center
• Virtual Excavations: Pacific Research Platform Enables Remote Collaboration on Underwater Archeological Dig in Israel (CENIC)
• Friday Focus: Tearing Down Obstacles (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
• Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope Partners in Canada Receive New $4.9 Million Grant (Cornell University)
• Stony Brook Women Faculty: Inspiring the Next Generation
• Survey: Broadband Infrastructure Support Is Vital for MSIs (Campus Technology)
• #OneNetChampions: Dr. Leslie Williams
• Published: The Trusted CI Framework Implementation Guide for Research Cyberinfrastructure Operators
• Testing Wraps Up for First Fermilab-designed Cryomodule for PIP-II Accelerator
• Researchers Virtually Open and Read Sealed Historic Letters (MIT)
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Awarded $395K NSF Grant for High Performance Computing Resources

Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to saly@internet2.edu.